Hugh Hewitt: How Trump can mitigate the damage of folding on the census

“A punch in the gut” is how one GOP strategist, speaking to Axios, described President Donald Trump’s decision to throw in the towel on the 2020 Census litigation. There is no sugarcoating it: The president folded. It’s a big loss for Trump, the attorney general, the Constitution and the rule of law.The president had been dealt a bad hand by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and by generally bad lawyering until Attorney General William Barr showed up months ago. Then the Sup